Chinese fishing boat captain freed

“We decided it was inappropriate to continue the investigation while keeping the suspect in custody any further, considering the future of the Japan-China relationship,” an official from the Osaka prosecutors’ office said at a hastily called press conference Friday afternoon. (Link)

I hope this clears up over the weekend and some more facts emerge that make it look less like a surrender, because it’s starting to look like Japan cried “おじ！”

(If you don’t know what that means, I’m sure you can guess.)

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A contributor and editor at the blog War Is Boring, Kyle Mizokami started Japan Security Watch in 2010 to further understand Japan's defenses and security policy.
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Well, Japan should never have grabbed the fishing boat in the first place, or it should have let it go quickly after, instead Japan publicly insisted to use Japanese law over the incident, as if they completely ignore the fact that this happened in a disputed area, as if Japan delibrately want to confront China over the issue and inflate it, I mean what did Japan expect of how China would react on this, if they let Japan do this without protests it would mean China agrees on Japans position on those Islands? How are the Chinese goverment gonna answer to the public over this? Despite what many people think, public opinions are very important for the Chinese government to survive and hold on the position of power.
Put it simple, Japan are getting more and more nationalistic in its way of dealing with foriegn relationship, and its starting to backfire.